A wife and mother said she believes in miracles after sewer workers found the $6,000 custom,made diamond wedding ring that she accidentally flushed down the toilet more than a year ago.

Mechelle Rieger accidentally flushed the gold band with seven diamonds down the toilet 18 months ago. Despite her husband Paul disassembling the latrine and going into the plumbing under the house, the ring was nowhere to be found.

She claimed the seven-diamond ring this morning at City Hall in Kuna, Idaho, bringing with her a photo and the March 2001 appraisal from the jeweller that made it, kboi2.com originally reported.

The ring cycle: Mechelle Rieger, third from left, has been reunited with her $6,000 engagement ring after she accidentally flushed it down the toilet nearly two years ago

Lost and found: Mrs Rieger was able to claim the custom-made ring after bringing proof of ownership from the original jeweller

Mrs Rieger thanked city workers Travis Fleming and Carey Knight, who spotted the ring along with loose coins in a filtration basket while doing routine maintenance last week.

Mr Knight, who works alongside Mr Fleming as a sewer worker, told kboi.com that he originally thought the ring was a fake.